APPENDIX 



THE COCOA-jNiUT TREE. 

 fSm P&g6 405, Vol, U 



" The Indian's nut alone 

 Is ctotMi^ meat m€ %emi^tms Miik mS. ma^ 

 Boat, cdble, eal], and needlei &n la one.** 



Of all the trees, beautiful cither in fornij height, 

 or the splendid colour of their flowers, so 

 profusely s^atfcered tte fe^ of jisfcltire 



m tropied dUm^s, p^Mps none hm excited 

 more interest, both for its elegant and majestic 

 growth J as well as for its utility, than this ]Kdm, 

 jn'oducing fruit, shade, utensils, and numerous 

 other articles, to supply the iivants of mankind. 

 These palma impait a g^anttetir to tibe tr^^pfeal 

 landscape ; their stem^ towering to a great 

 elevation, ;ire crowned at #€ wnmit by- 

 elegant ironds of gigantic character ; they over- 



